OCR A Level Physical Education Paper 2 2025 Mark Scheme Pdf

Download the official OCR A Level Physical Education H555/02 Psychological Factors Affecting Performance mark scheme from the June 2025 examination series. This examiner-approved PDF contains the full OCR mark scheme used during live assessment, including accepted answers, assessment-objective guidance, examiner annotations, and levels-based marking criteria for all sections of the paper.

The OCR H555/02 June 2025 mark scheme provides detailed guidance for AO1 knowledge, AO2 practical application, and AO3 analysis and evaluation questions in A Level Physical Education. Students and teachers can use this document to understand exactly how OCR examiners awarded marks and evaluated candidate responses during the June 2025 series.

The mark scheme covers key topics in sport psychology and skill acquisition, including stress-management techniques, intrinsic feedback, stages of learning, anxiety symptoms, skill classification, transfer of learning, selective attention, memory-processing theory, operant conditioning, guidance methods, attribution theory, leadership theories, catastrophe theory, group dynamics, self-efficacy, and practice structures.

Section A contains examiner-approved answers on psychological preparation and feedback systems. OCR explains accepted responses relating to progressive muscular relaxation (PMR), biofeedback, centring, breathing control, kinaesthetic feedback, autonomous and associative stages of learning, and physiological symptoms of anxiety such as sweating, trembling, nausea, and increased heart rate.

Section B develops advanced sport-psychology concepts and learning theories. The mark scheme includes detailed guidance for classifying simple, closed, and highly organised skills; bilateral and negative transfer; selective attention in hockey; levels-of-processing memory theory; operant conditioning principles; reinforcement; Thorndike’s laws; verbal and manual guidance; attribution theory; emergent and prescribed leadership; and catastrophe theory.
OCR also provides examiner-approved evaluation points for motivation losses, social loafing, co-ordination losses, the Ringelmann effect, poor group cohesion, unclear goals, ineffective leadership, and team-performance problems that reduce actual productivity in sport teams.

The extended-response section contains full levels-based marking guidance for the 10-mark essay question covering practice types and Bandura’s self-efficacy theory. OCR outlines the exact requirements for Level 1 through Level 3 responses, including AO1 theoretical knowledge, AO2 sporting examples, and AO3 evaluative analysis.

The indicative content section explains how OCR expects students to analyse varied, fixed, massed, distributed, whole, part, and whole-part-whole practice methods in passing-based sporting situations. It also includes examiner-approved explanations of self-efficacy, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, emotional arousal, and performance accomplishments within Bandura’s theory.

The OCR H555/02 mark scheme additionally includes official examiner annotation guidance explaining ticks, benefit-of-doubt markers, AO1/AO2/AO3 indicators, levels-of-response labels, and instructions for marking contradictory responses, multiple-choice questions, and extended written answers.

This OCR A Level Physical Education H555/02 mark scheme is ideal for exam preparation, self-assessment, teacher marking, retrieval practice, revision planning, coursework support, and understanding OCR examiner expectations for Psychological Factors Affecting Performance. Pair this document with the official OCR H555/02 June 2025 question paper for complete examiner-style revision and performance analysis. Updated for the 2025/2026 academic year, fully mobile-friendly, and instantly downloadable.

This document is designed for OCR A Level Physical Education students preparing for the 2026 examination series, resit candidates improving Psychological Factors Affecting Performance exam technique, home-educated learners, and independent candidates studying A Level PE. It is especially useful for students learning how OCR applies AO1 knowledge, AO2 practical application, and AO3 evaluative analysis during live marking.

Teachers, tutors, PE departments, intervention coordinators, revision-course providers, and parents can use this official OCR mark scheme for mock-exam assessment, examiner-standard feedback, classroom discussion, retrieval practice, and benchmarking student answers against live OCR marking standards from the June 2025 series.